{"id":385,"date":"2017-02-07T08:45:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T08:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/?p=385"},"modified":"2017-02-07T08:45:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T08:45:37","slug":"meant-for-each-other-samples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/2017\/02\/07\/meant-for-each-other-samples\/","title":{"rendered":"Meant for Each Other: Samples"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally posted to my newsgroup on SFF Net:<\/em><\/p>\n

\t“I am the Dread Key of Narthanax, created a thousand years ago
\nby Appovar of Zalidon to unleash the Twelve Hosts of Vengeance upon an
\nunsuspecting world! Tremble before me, flesh-thing, as I… hey! Put
\nme down!”
\n–May 17, 2004<\/p>\n

\tThe midwife lifted the baby, cooing, and then stopped. Her smile turned to a puzzled frown.
\n\t“What?” the new mother asked, still panting from the delivery. “Is something wrong?”
\n\t“Not wrong, exactly,” the midwife said quickly. “He’s a fine healthy boy, by the look of him.” The child, silent until that moment, suddenly let out a wail, his face crumpled in displeasure at his new surroundings. “But he’s got a birthmark!” the midwife called over the baby’s crying, as she handed him to his mother.
\n\tThe father had appeared in the bedroom door at the baby’s first yell, and now stared as the mother cradled her new son. “What kind of a birthmark?” he demanded. “Is he disfigured?”
\n\t“No, no,” the midwife said. “It’s quite small. It’s on his left shoulder.”
\n\t“I see it,” the mother said, as she held the infant to her breast. The crying came to a sudden end. “It’s shaped like a sword and crown.”
\n\t“Like what?” the father asked, startled.
\n\t“Like a sword and crown,” the midwife said. “Exactly<\/i> like a sword and crown. Right down to the star on the pommel.”
\n\tThe father hesitated. “That doesn’t sound natural,” he said.
\n\t“It’s not,” the midwife said. “You can see that at a glance. That’s a magical birthmark if I ever saw one.”
\n\t“Magic? My son has some kind of magic?” the father demanded.
\n\t“I’m afraid so,” the midwife said. “It’s not one I know, though — you’ll need to talk to someone at the Department of Signs and Prophecies.”
\n — November 20, 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Originally posted to my newsgroup on SFF Net: “I am the Dread Key of Narthanax, created a thousand years ago by Appovar of Zalidon to unleash the Twelve Hosts of Vengeance upon an unsuspecting world! Tremble before me, flesh-thing, as I… hey! Put me down!” –May 17, 2004 The midwife lifted the baby, cooing, and… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meant-for-each-other","category-samples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}